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Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC
An anonymous reader writes "VLC is incapable of increasing the actual power past 100%, all that is being done is the waveform is being modified to be louder within the allowed constraints. But, that didn't stop Dell from denying warranty service for speaker damage if the popular VLC Media Player is installed on a Dell laptop. Also we got a report that service was denied because KMPlayer was installed on a laptop. The warranty remains valid on the other parts of the laptop. VLC player developer [Jean-Baptiste Kempf] denied the issue with VLC and further claimed that the player cannot be used to damage speakers. How can I convince Dell to replace my laptop speaker which is still in warranty? Or class action is only my option?"
Another good reason to avoid DELL.
classic
This is my last post before the Slashcott tomorrow.
I have been an active and paying member of Slashdot for the better part of 15 years. I am already mourning its demise, as I view it is on its deathbed in terminal condition.
Slashdot is the abusive husband, it's users, the battered wife.
Slashdot says, "We're listening, we're listening."
As they bash our heads against the wall with such a horrible new system.
Please, please don't make the beta live for everyone, even if there is a (let's face it) temporary classic mode ;(
Slashdot Valentines Beta Massacre: iT WORKED! The boycotts killed Beta!!
Dell is blaming a (quality) product they don't like for their own failings. Dice (and its supporters) are blaming unhappy Slashdot users for the problems Dice.com has created with the tone-deaf Beta.
Sorry for the Offtopic comment, but I thought I'd put this out there just before the anti-Beta boycott officially starts:
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
If you like the Beta or couldn't care less about it, then you should use it actively and prove by your participation that you accept it. I think we can be democratic about it and let the community choose. If the comment sections of the articles look alive and well by next Monday, this will mean that the community chose Beta. If AC comments are listening to the crickets, this will mean that the comments are by passer-bys and the actual community chose Classic.
Dixi.
Oh, I can burn my karma, no problem.
If you were paying attention you would know that from 10 to 17 february there is slashdot boycott (slashcott) in which people log off and can only browse anonymously to give dice holdings fewer requests from logged in users.
PS: doesn't that posting a new story exactly once per hour doesn't ring you a bell?
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